... or why move communities at all: Why not supporting a community which lives outside of Adobe? Could be even more valuable.
Cheers, Ralf. On 10/19/06, Ralf Bokelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <rant> > To me it looks like Adobe doesn't have a real community strategy. From > a company like Adobe i would expect to formulate and publish a > strategic goal and then to do everything to achieve it. Instead of > this, Adobe people are suggesting to use Adobe forums and mailing > lists instead of flexcoders, or are creating sites like RIAForge > instead of supporting osflash. I think, community is a very fragile > thing. You can't just "move" it from one place to another. It builds > arround people. So if you want to move community, you have to move > (read support) people maybe? > </rant> > > I like the cheap design of RIAForge though :) > Cheers, > Ralf. > > > On 10/19/06, Mike Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just because we may have registered the domain name, does not mean we > > own the site. Although, maybe we do. (I don't really know). > > > > mike chambers > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > On Oct 18, 2006, at 6:40 PM, Tim Scollick wrote: > > > > > It sure looks like Adobe owns it, Mike! > > > > > > http://www.whois.net/whois_new.cgi?d=riaforge.com > > > > > > Tim > > > > > > On 10/18/06, Mike Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sorry for > > > not responding to this earlier, I just found out about this > > > also. > > > > > > From what I understand, this isnt meant to be a competitor to > > > OSFlash (if anything, it is meant to compliment it). > > > > > > Ben Forta (who has been working on this) sent me this description: > > > > > > -- > > > I just wanted to make it very clear that RIAForge is not intended to > > > compete with osflash or any other similar projects. We built the site > > > to be both house a community around Adobe products, and also to act > > > as a consolidated list of all sorts of projects, both local and not. > > > When projects are defined on RIAForge they can be local, or they can > > > link to external sites and projects. Projects can opt to use specific > > > features (project blog, project forum, project bug tracker, project > > > subversion store) regardless of whether the project is local or not, > > > or can simply be a listing with a link to external projects. > > > -- > > > > > > As far as who owns it, I am not sure. We (Adobe) don't run it, > > > although I believe we have provided some help. Some Adobe people > > > (particular Ben and Mike Potter) might help out running the site. > > > > > > Anyways, hope that clears it not. Sorry for all of the confusion. > > > > > > mike chambers > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > On Oct 18, 2006, at 7:15 AM, Aral Balkan wrote: > > > > > > > Looks like Adobe's got their own OSFlash alternative for the various > > > > Adobe products: > > > > http://ray.camdenfamily.com/index.cfm/2006/10/18/Announcing-RIAForge > > > > > > > > Aral > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > osflash mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > osflash mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > osflash mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > osflash mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > > > > -- > Ralf Bokelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Flex & Flash Consultant based in Cologne/Germany > -- Ralf Bokelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Flex & Flash Consultant based in Cologne/Germany _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
